Paula, I removed comma place holders by search for ', ,' and replace with ','.
That rapidly cleaned up the whole list. I also standardized whether states are abbreviated or full name, added U.S.A. to state names, and other clean-up and standardization items. With a lot of locations and many years of entries in whatever format seemed good at the time, I've found search and replace a tremendous help. Of course, I'm still going through the list and seeing how different things search. Art Seddon ----- Original Message ----- From: Paula Ryburn To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:08 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Location Issues Ross, I just clicked the right-to-left radio button under "direction of sort" on the bottom right of the Master List > Locations > Sort screen, clicked OK and "voils!" my list was sorted beautifully. However, I don't think I had any place-holder commas in my Locations at that time. I just checked and there's no magic "remove place-holder commas" in the Location Options, and nothing under Options > Customize on the Data Format tab for Locations. However, I know I've seen an option to "remove commas"...... either "leading" or "place-holder" on at least one of the reports. So, you could use that until you've worked your way through the Locations list removing commas. Or just leave them in until you find out the counties or whatever...? Hope this helps! --Paula --- On Mon, 6/22/09, Ross Chapman <ross.chap...@rogers.com> wrote: > So then... the question is will the > program convert the current locations system wide or will I > have to manually convert each location? If the system will > convert the names what are the steps to do so? > > Ross Chapman > Toronto, Ontario, Canada > ross.chap...@rogers.com > > Visit my genealogy web page at http://rossallanchapman.tribalpages.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com > [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] > On Behalf Of Cathy Vallevieni > Sent: June-22-09 11:48 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Location Issues > > Ross: > > I agree with Paula about the right-to-left sort > for the Location list. This solved my problem of > wanting to include the names of cemeteries, > churches, addresses, etc. for some ancestors as > well as the different naming structure in other > countries. No matter how many "parts" you > include in a location, it always sorts them > perfectly and you can find them instantly yet > reports have all the information you want on them. > > Cathy Vallevieni > Orange County, CA > > > At 01:03 PM 6/22/2009, you wrote: > > >Ross, A few days ago, someone on this list > >pointed out to me the right-to-left sort for my > >Location list, and I have never looked > >back! I've just tested, and it handles even 6 > >"break-downs" of a location. See if you like > >that sort. Then it will never matter how many > >break-downs you have... at least as far as I can see. > >I also stopped trying to use placeholder commas > >because I really couldn't make heads or tails of > >them. With the right-to-left sort everything > >lines up even if you don't have extra commas. > >--Paula > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
